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SB 1120: Expert Witnesses

GENERAL BILL by Perry ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Passidomo

Expert Witnesses; Requiring a court to pay reasonable fees to members of an examining committee for their evaluation and testimony regarding persons with disabilities; authorizing, rather than requiring, a court to appoint up to two additional experts to evaluate a defendant suspected of having an intellectual disability or autism under certain circumstances; authorizing a court to take less restrictive action than commitment if an expert finds a child incompetent, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2018
 Last Action: 3/10/2018 Senate - Died in Judiciary
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Judiciary (JU)
  2. Criminal Justice (CJ)
  3. Appropriations (AP)

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  • Bill History

    Date Chamber Action
    12/6/2017 Senate • Filed
    12/18/2017 Senate • Referred to Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Appropriations -SJ 84
    1/9/2018 Senate • Introduced -SJ 84
    1/18/2018 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/18/18, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Office Building --Temporarily Postponed
    1/22/2018 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/25/18, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Office Building --Not Considered
    3/10/2018 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
    • Died in Judiciary

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  • SB 1120, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 12/6/2017 at 11:13 AM

    Bill Text:   Web Page | PDF
    Analyses:   Judiciary (Pre-Meeting) 1/24/2018 (pdf)

    Related Bills (1)

    Bill Number Subject Filed By Relationship Last Action and Location Track Bills
    H 1063 Expert Witnesses Metz Similar Last Action: 3/10/2018 H Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee Track This Bill

    Citations - Statutes (13)

    Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
    29.006 Indigent defense costs. Page 14 (pdf)
    29.007 Court-appointed counsel. Page 14 (pdf)
    393.11 Involuntary admission to residential services. Page 3 (pdf)
    744.331 Procedures to determine incapacity. Page 4 (pdf)
    916.115 Appointment of experts. Page 4 (pdf)
    916.12 Mental competence to proceed. Page 7 (pdf)
    916.17 Conditional release. Page 8 (pdf)
    916.301 Appointment of experts. Page 8 (pdf)
    916.304 Conditional release. Page 10 (pdf)
    921.09 Fees of physicians who determine sanity at time of sentence. Page 10 (pdf)
    921.12 Fees of physicians when pregnancy is alleged as cause for not pronouncing sentence. Page 11 (pdf)
    921.137 Imposition of the death sentence upon an intellectually disabled defendant prohibited. Page 11 (pdf)
    985.19 Incompetency in juvenile delinquency cases. Page 12 (pdf)

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